Story By Sheila Balauitan
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Sheila Balauitan

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HER BILLION-DOLLAR SECRET
Updated at Aug 16, 2026, 19:49
Ava Hart has one rule: the life she built in Cedarville belongs only to her. Not to the Hartono family name. Not to her mother's careful arrangements. Not to Edward Lim, the man her family has decided is her future. Just to her — the teacher, the woman, the person she is when nobody is watching. Then Thomas starts watching. Not in the way her world is used to — not calculating or strategic or measuring her against an expectation. Just warm and steady and genuinely curious, the way someone looks at you when they actually want to know who you are. She has three months before her mother's deadline. Three months before the banquet, before Edward, before the life she left catches up with the life she chose. Three months to figure out whether the most honest thing she has ever had is worth losing everything else for. Her Billion-Dollar Secret by S.B. Hart.
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